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Pixelated icon shows a character with dark hair and orange face in a speech bubble reading 'h to the izzo' above 'Jay-Z Buddy' text.

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Pixelated icon shows a character with dark hair and orange face in a speech bubble reading 'h to the izzo' above 'Jay-Z Buddy' text.

Pixelated icon shows a character with dark hair and orange face in a speech bubble reading 'h to the izzo' above 'Jay-Z Buddy' text. 50×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Balleric…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • text above character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on gray background. Top white speech bubble with black border contains 'h to the izzo' in black pixelated font. Below bubble, pixelated character with black hair, orange face, and black-and-white checkered clothing. Character holds white object near face. Below character, 'Jay-Z Buddy' in large black pixelated font with white outline. All elements are static; no animation. Colors include black, white, gray, orange. Composition is centered with text above and below character.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a character with dark hair and orange face in a speech bubble reading 'h to the izzo' above 'Jay-Z Buddy' text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Jay-Z

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002

Named Entities

  • Jay-Z

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • h to the izzo
  • Jay-Z Buddy
  • pixelated character
  • orange face
  • checkered clothing
  • gray background

Objects

  • speech bubble

Visible Text

  • h to the izzo
  • Jay-Z Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Jay-Z

Wordwall

  • speech bubble
  • h to the izzo
  • Jay-Z Buddy
  • pixelated character
  • orange face
  • checkered clothing
  • white object
  • gray background
  • black border
  • white outline

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
35936
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/28cad86a4b6d27e1ace39140cb25a6313594e98095cf36a8fc6656f4ec1d1761.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
Archive ID
28cad86a4b6d27e1
SHA-256
28cad86a4b6d27e1ace39140cb25a6313594e98095cf36a8fc6656f4ec1d1761
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087051

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon shows a character with dark hair and orange face in a speech bubble reading 'h to the izzo' above 'Jay-Z Buddy' text.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:01 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 788

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • white object (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • orange

Composition

  • centered
  • text above character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on gray background. Top white speech bubble with black border contains 'h to the izzo' in black pixelated font. Below bubble, pixelated character with black hair, orange face, and black-and-white checkered clothing. Character holds white object near face. Below character, 'Jay-Z Buddy' in large black pixelated font with white outline. All elements are static; no animation. Colors include black, white, gray, orange. Composition is centered with text above and below character.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a character with dark hair and orange face in a speech bubble reading 'h to the izzo' above 'Jay-Z Buddy' text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Jay-Z

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
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  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002

Mood

  • playful

Named Entities

  • Jay-Z

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • h to the izzo
  • Jay-Z Buddy
  • pixelated character
  • orange face
  • checkered clothing
  • gray background

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • white object

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • h to the izzo
  • Jay-Z Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Jay-Z

Wordwall

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  • h to the izzo
  • Jay-Z Buddy
  • pixelated character
  • orange face
  • checkered clothing
  • white object
  • gray background
  • black border
  • white outline
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Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
35936
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://ballericons.com/icon/35936.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011025223812id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/35936.gif